Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein (14 February 1944-) was an American investigative journalist and author who was best known for his work with Bob Woodward to expose President Richard Nixon's role in the 1972 Watergate scandal, while working for The Washington Post.

Biography
Carl Bernstein was born in Washington DC in 1944 to a Jewish family, and he started his journalism career at the age of 16 as a copyboy for The Washington Star. Bernstein left the University of Maryland in 1965 to become a full-time reporter for the Elizabeth Daily Journal in New Jersey. In 1972, while working as a young reporter for The Washington Post, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. Through interviewing sources close to President Richard Nixon's administration, including the White House Plumbers' defense attorneys and members of Nixon's re-election committee (CREEP), they exposed Nixon's personal involvement in the cover-up of the scandal. After Watergate, Bernstein wrote books and magazine articles on the use and abuse of power, and he became an author and a political commentator for CNN.